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previous Archive n° 522  - 04/11/1992 next   Francis Soler KENYA Editor in Chief POSSIBLE ELECTION DATE While the flag was lifted to start the multi-party electoral race in Kenya when the government party Kanu accepted the principle of political pluralism last year, the schedule for the elections remains a secret weapon in the hands of President Daniel arap Moi. (...)   [801 words]  [$8.2] POLITICS SOMALIA SOMALI SSDF CAPTURES TWO BOATS    According to a statement issued on April 6 by the Djibouti-based spokesman for the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), Mohamed Abshir, and communicated to French news agency AFP, his movement captured two Taiwan fishing vessels and thirty-three crew members off Beila in the north-east of Somalia on April 1.  (...)  [161 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI DISPUTE OVER FRENCH POSITIONS ON HANLE PLATEAU    The French army in Djibouti and the Djiboutian government throughout last week had been arguing over the positions held by the French troops in the Hanle Plateau region between Yoboki and Dikhil.  (...)  [321 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI OPPOSITION PLANS TO RESUME FIGHTING    On April 8, the spokesman for the Djiboutian opposition Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), Abbate Ebo Adou, announced "fighting was about to resume" and that the rebels were to launch a "general offensive" to be known as "Hamoud Langara", named after an Issa nationalist killed in Dire Dawa last year.  (...)  [402 words]  [$4.7] SUDAN    Sudan's foreign minister, Ali Sahloul, says he handed a message to Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, from Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir in which he apologised for the information that was communicated by the official Sudanese news agency, SUNA, according to which, President al Bashir had asked Daniel arap Moi to halt aid to the SPLA rebels in southern Sudan (ION N°521).  (...)  [68 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN STATE ARMY GAINING GROUND AGAIN    A two thousand-strong government army contingent, with air support, captured the town of Bor in the South of Sudan on April 4.  (...)  [469 words]  [$4.7] ERITREA    A military delegation from Yemen, led by the deputy chief-of-staff of that army, Mohamed Haysam recently spent a week in Asmara where it met with the principle military leaders of Eritrea, including the commander-in-chief, Sibhata Efrem, and head of military operations, Ali Said Abdalla.  (...)  [58 words]  [$1.5] COMOROS ISLANDS MOHAMED TAKI SPEAKS OUT    Since April 1, an open crisis has been upsetting the Comoros Islands new national union government formed on January 6.  (...)  [451 words]  [$4.7] KENYA POSSIBLE ELECTION DATE    While the flag was lifted to start the multi-party electoral race in Kenya when the government party Kanu accepted the principle of political pluralism last year, the schedule for the elections remains a secret weapon in the hands of President Daniel arap Moi.  (...)  [801 words]  [$8.2] SOUTH AFRICA TANZANIA TO LEND AID TO ANC ?    According to Tanzanian daily Uhuru of April 3, the African National Congress (ANC) has apparently called on the government in Tanzania to help it convert its armed wing into a conventional military force.  (...)  [156 words]  [$4.7] ETHIOPIA RETURN OF THE EMPEROR II    In an interview with Spanish monarchist daily newspaper, ABC, the son of the assassinated Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie, the self-proclaimed "Emperor-in-exile," Amha Selassie I, announced that he intends to return to Ethiopia with his wife, the "Empress-in-exile" Medferiash and their son, thirty-year-old prince Zara Yacob, this summer.  (...)  [317 words]  [$4.7] SEYCHELLES    South Africa and Seychelles established consular relations on April 6.  (...)  [53 words]  [$1.5] WHO'S WHO MAURITIUS ALAIN CHEONG    The managing director of the Mauritian branch of British American Insurance (BAI) has been elected chairman of the Mauritius Employers Association (MEF) for 1992.  (...)  [110 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS MADHUSUDAN CONHYEDOSS    Madhusudan Conhyedoss, the personal legal adviser to the Mauritian prime minister, Aneerood Jugnauth, has been expelled from one of the two governing parties in Mauritius, the MSM, on whose central committee he used to sit.  (...)  [196 words]  [$4.7] UNITED STATES/SUDAN DONALD PETTERSON    Former ambassador to Somalia from 1978 to 1982, then to Tanzania from 1986 to 1989, this man has been ppointed United States ambassador to Sudan.  (...)  [73 words]  [FREE] MOZAMBIQUE/SEYCHELLES PEDRO GAIVO ODALLAH    The new non-resident Mozambican ambassador to the Seychelles last week took up his functions in that country. Aged forty-eight, Pedro Gaivao Odallah has also been ambassador to Tanzania since 1990.  (...)  [49 words]  [FREE] KENYA E.K. KIONI    Securicor Kenya Limited has offered Mr Kioni the post of head of "cash-in-transit" operations. His task will be to organise transport throughout Kenya for liquidities entrusted by banks and businesses to Securicor.  (...)  [127 words]  [$4.7] ECONOMICS ZIMBABWE TRADE BOOM WITH SOUTH AFRICA    South Africa's trade representative in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, Nico Nel estimated last week that trade between South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1992 would amount to two million rands  (...)  [181 words]  [$4.7] SOUTH AFRICA SCANDINAVIAN FIRMS COMING-BACK    According to the latest issue of the monthly development aid newsletter published in Olso, Norway, Development Today, several private companies in northern Europe that has cut down  (...)  [277 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS BILATERAL COOPERATION WITH FRANCE    For the first time in the history of the Franco-Mauritian Joint Commission meetings, representatives from Reunion Island attended the Paris rendez-vous on April 7 to 9.  (...)  [425 words]  [$4.7] MAURITIUS SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT    The World Bank last week approved a 15-million dollar loan for a programme aimed at increasing electricity production in Mauritius, using sugar-cane fibre waste, and in developing  (...)  [245 words]  [$4.7] EAST AFRICA SEEKING A SOLUTION TO A HEAVY OIL BILL    According to the preliminary results of a study on the oil situation in Africa, researched by the World Bank and Italian firm, Cuneo e Associati since last year, that was subsidised  (...)  [450 words]  [$4.7] KENYA COFFEE PLANTERS UP IN ARMS    During the recent annual general meeting of the Kenya Planters' Co-operative Union (KPCU), attended by over 2,000 coffee planters, the management of the union was called into ques  (...)  [267 words]  [$4.7] DJIBOUTI    Radio Djibouti reports that the Djiboutian government decided on April 7 to abrogate all laws forbidding economic and trade relations with South Africa.  (...)  [49 words]  [$1.5] MAURITIUS    Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority (MEDIA) will this year organise five prospection missions for the Export Processing Zone (EPZ).  (...)  [78 words]  [$1.5] TANZANIA AIR TANZANIA TO BE PRIVATISED IN PART    Tanzanian minister of communications and transport, Jackson Makweta announced in Dar es Salaam last week, that Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC) is to be privatised partially, in order  (...)  [175 words]  [$4.7] COMOROS ISLANDS    Comoros Islands minister of equipment, Ahmed Mohamed announced on April 2 that the Comoros Islands electricity and water utilities company, Electricité et Eau des Comores (EEDC) is  (...)  [147 words]  [$1.5] AFRICA/MAURITIUS MAURITIAN POLITICIAN ORGANISES REGIONAL TRADE MISSION    Former minister of tourism for the Isle of Mauritius, Gaetan Duval, who is presently leader of the opposition PMSD party, is conducting a mission of businessmen from Bahrein to several  (...)  [426 words]  [$4.7] AGENDA TANZANIA HORACE KOLIMBA    The ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi secretary general last week ruled out the possibility of a multi-party constitutional conference in Tanzania.  (...)  [70 words]  [$1.5] SUDAN OMAR HASSAN AL BASHIR    Sudan's President went to Djibouti on April 7, where he met his Djiboutian counterpart, Hassan Gouled Aptidon.  (...)  [71 words]  [$1.5] SOUTH AFRICA PIK BOTHA    South Africa's foreign minister said on April 7 in Nigeria that his country is "in the process of joining the Organisation for African Unity, OAU.  (...)  [30 words]  [FREE] DJIBOUTI/FRANCE REGIS DE BELENET    The new French ambassador to Djibouti took up his functions on April 6 (ION N°519).  (...)  [20 words]  [FREE] SOUTH AFRICA CLARENCE MAKWETU    The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in South Africa, a small black rival group to the ANC re-elected Clarence Makwetu as president of the movement.  (...)  [78 words]  [$1.5] COMOROS ISLANDS MAHDI AHAMADA    Former secretary general of the Comoros economy ministry before the last reshuffle, he has been nominated to join the management of Radio Comoros.  (...)  [36 words]  [FREE] MOZAMBIQUE ENEAS COMICHE    The Mozambican finance minister last week admitted that government troops were not paid regularly.  (...)  [52 words]  [$1.5]   previous Archive n° 522  - 04/11/1992 next

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